Former Glendale High athlete Bryan Munoz, who coached Superior's 1997 football team to the Class B championship game, has died. He was 50.

Zack Munoz, athletic director of the Phoenix Union High School District, said that his brother died on Aug. 28 from complications of a stroke he suffered a few days earlier.

The Munoz's' father, Al Munoz, was a former head football coach at Glendale High and a former chairman of the Arizona State Boxing Commission, died in 2007.

Bryan Munoz coached football and baseball during a long coaching career that saw him go from El Mirage Dysart to Superior to Miami and two years ago to Surprise Arizona Charter Academy, as it moved into the Arizona Interscholastic Association competition in 8-man football.

He had been out of coaching.

Munoz's greatest coaching success in football came in 1997 when he led Superior to a 12-1 record. Its only loss came against Chandler Seton Catholic 41-19 in the state final.

In the early 2000s, he coached Miami to a state semifinal finish in baseball, leading the Vandals to the state playoffs all four years he led the team.

"His spirit and passion for life was the thing about him," said Zack, 52, who grew up competing with his brother in sports. "Everybody who knew him loved him for that, caring for what he did."

Bryan Munoz made all-state in both football and basketball at Glendale, where he was a quarterback and point guard.

"He was the most athletic in our family," Zack said. "He hurt himself in college, hurt his elbow and had to stop playing."

Services for Bryan Munoz will be held Sept. 11 at 11 a.m. at St. Thomas More Church, 6180 W. Utopia, Glendale, 85308.